CENTURIA III · QUATRAIN LVII
The Changed Isle
Sept fois changer vertueux Britanniques,
Taintz en sang en deux cens nonante an:
Franche non point par appuy Germaniques,
Aries doubte son pole Bastarnien.
Seven times the valorous British change,
stained in blood over two hundred ninety years:
free no longer through German support,
Aries doubts its Bastarnian pole.
THE MASTER SAYS…
And again, this quatrain relates to World War II, and he shows me how Great Britain united with France to defend Poland during the war. Since Poland is mentioned, I think that this is most likely connected with World War II. He said that this was the fall of the British Empire. Now he points to a map in his study and says: “Now there is no more, no more power.” After this war? Yes, he says so. Is this what the two hundred and ninety years mean? The seizure of lands that became part of the British colonial empire began no earlier than the beginning of the seventeenth century, when England began to make sea voyages. The seizure of lands was often accompanied by wars and indeed meant what is expressed by the words “dying in blood.” Their empire spread across the globe, but after World War II its size shrank when it granted independence to various possessions. This is approximately the period of 290 years that Nostradamus speaks of.